Checklist
Recovery Programme Review Checklist
Purpose
Test whether a contractor's recovery programme is credible before you accept it as the new plan — because a cosmetic one just buries the slippage.
Who it’s for
Employer / PMC project controls, planners and PMs reviewing a recovery submission.
When to use it
When a contractor issues a recovery or acceleration programme.
Key areas covered
- Logic & sequencing
- Durations & method
- Resources
- Constraints & calendars
- Critical path & float
- Achievability
Related framework Forecast Integrity →
Test whether a recovery programme is a genuine, resourced plan — or dates pulled left. Work down the list before you let the new dates change how the job is run.
Logic & sequencing
- Has logic been relaxed to make the date (FS → SS, overlaps that can’t physically overlap)?
- Are there negative lags or leads introduced purely to compress the path?
- Does the recovered sequence still make engineering sense?
Durations & method
- Where durations are shortened, is there a method statement or basis behind the change?
- Has anything real changed (crew, shift, plant) to justify a shorter duration?
Resources
- Is the resource histogram behind the recovery achievable — and ever achieved on this job?
- Are the assumed labour, plant and long-lead materials actually secured?
Constraints & calendars
- Is the recovery date held by real logic, or by a constraint on the completion milestone?
- Do added weekend/night calendars reflect real, resourced, permitted working?
Critical path & float
- Does the recovered critical path make sense, or now run through improbable activities?
- Has all float been stripped, leaving no room for the next problem?
Achievability
- Is there evidence this rate of recovery is achievable, given actuals to date?
- Does the recovery assume a higher productivity than was achieved when things were going well?